Clinical Informatics Fellowship Greer

The Upstate of South Carolina has a rapidly growing population in a state that has been identified at risk for a physician workforce need. This need includes a demand for the services provided by clinical informatics physicians. Since many graduates of the fellowship program are projected to remain in the Upstate or in the state of SC to practice, the establishment of a Clinical Informatics at Prisma Health UofSC School of Medicine Greenville helps to satisfy this physician workforce need. Moreover, there is a growing demand from our current resident graduates to match in a variety of GME fellowship programs including Clinical Informatics. Such a fellowship program at Prisma Health UofSC School of Medicine Greenville would allow these residents who wish to be retained in the area to not be required to move to another area to continue their training, putting their career choice and the SC physician workforce development at further risk. 

The objectives and requirements of the Prisma Health UofSC School of Medicine Greenville Clinical Informatics Fellowship will be accomplished through a large, single sponsoring health system with an 800+ bed main campus (including nearly 100 ICU beds) and 7 additional satellite facilities (total licensed beds 1100+). In this system, there already exist 9 accredited residency training programs as well as 8 fellowship programs. The Department of Medicine has over 700 faculty members, included in 16 subspecialty divisions and primary care. The Division of Clinical Informatics, a newly formed division, employs four physician informaticist, three with primary appointments to the Department of Medicine and one with a primary appointment to the Department of Emergency Medicine. There will be a designated Program Director and Key Clinical Faculty with appropriate time, salary support, and instruction in education and evaluation of fellow trainees. They will also demonstrate appropriate productivity in scholarship. This learning environment will ensure the trainees will have a diversity of real-world informatics problems and projects. Trainees will operate in a variety of dynamic informatics groups working direction on electronic health record systems, quality improvement, data governance and analytics, systems acquisition, and regulatory compliance. Combined this will facilitate accomplishment of the ACGME competencies outlined for a Clinical Informatics Fellowship.